Bock
Meaning
- (masculine,strong) buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
- (masculine,strong) a stubborn person
- (masculine,strong) a man who is lecherous or sexually active
- (informal,masculine,strong) a blunder, mistake
- (masculine,strong) a seat for a coachman
- (masculine,strong) an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.
Concepts
Synonyms
Auflagebock
Belustigung
Fez
Folterbank
Hirschbock
Kutschbock
heißer Ofen
Bokkie
Ziegenmännchen
Dachfirst
Erheiterung
Schafsbock
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
bock
Appenzell Innerrhoden
bock
Basel-Landschaft
bogg
Basel-Stadt
bock
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
[bɔk]
Etymology
From Middle High German boc, poc, from Old High German boc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk. Cognate to English buck, Bavarian Bock, Dutch bok, Norwegian bukk, Swedish bock, Danish buk.
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